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Monthly Archives: October 2008
La festa della cultura informatica
Sabato prossimo 25 Ottobre l’Italia celebra il LinuxDay, la giornata di promozione del sistema GNU/Linux e del software libero. Quest’anno la manifestazione รจ diventata tanto importante da meritare l’attenzione del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana! Complimenti a Davide Dozza e Michele … Continue reading
Software patents will not pass in Europe
The last lesson of the MBA was about patents, how to use them strategically for your business. The professor was really good at explaining all the steps that you must follow before you start any innovation process and what traps … Continue reading
How Apple will dramatically increase revenues
My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year: It’s not (only) the cool design or the … Continue reading
Posted in business, eng
Tagged apple, disruption, innovation, marketing, revenues, strategy
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Firefox 3.1 beta 1 adds support for OGG formats
Big boost to the PlayOGG campaign coming from Firefox: This is the first beta from Mozilla to include support for <video> and the <audio> elements. This beta includes support for the OGG Theora and OGG Vorbis formats on all platforms. … Continue reading
Posted in business, community, eng
Tagged firefox, free software, mozilla, open standards, software patents
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School ending, still little free time
I’m done with class, no more crossing the city to attend lessons. The two years of this EMBA are coming to an end, finally I still have little free time, though, because MIP Politecnico in the end is still an … Continue reading
My high priority free software list
The FSF has rebooted the list of High Priority Free Software Projects with a $10,000 grant donated from WordLabel.com. The list contains software that is considered useful by the Foundation to keep computer users away from non-free software. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged community, free software, fsf, funambol, priority, sync
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Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (3/3)
After two days bashing Apple, here is the good stuff as promised. iWorks is good stuff. Keynote is simply amazing: everything is where it should be, the templates are gorgeous, animations are fluid, automatic aligning of pasted items is superb. … Continue reading
Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (2/3)
Yesterday I described the bad things I found with my year experience with a Mac. Today it’s the day of the ugly stuff. The ALT-TAB (or CMD-TAB, in Mac world) has the stupidest behavior ever. It cycles through the open … Continue reading
Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (1/3)
When I started working at Funambol, Hal asked me what kind of computer I wanted, PC or Mac? At that time I had suffered some frustration with my usual setup, using GNOME. I was especially frustrated by the mail program … Continue reading